Why it works: Tea and egg work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 821 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Beat the egg and mix it into the cup of weak tea.
Serve with a slice of toast.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Tea + eggtop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together821 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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What each ingredient does
- Egg
- Provides protein and body, thickening the tea slightly as it mixes in.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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